The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L. L. L. Bine believes the more time you spend

outside together, the better. That's why they've partnered with the National Park Foundation

to help you find your park and get there with family and friends. With more than

400 national park sites in the US, there are beautiful surprises to be found in every

corner of the country. There's probably one closer than you think. Be an

outsider with L.L. Bean. 337, 598 acres of colorful canyons, mesas, butts, fins, arches, and spires in the heart of Southeast Utah's high desert.

A land where water and gravity are the prime architects,

sculpting layers of rock into the rugged landscape we see today.

I'm Jason Epperson, and this is the America's National Parks Podcast.

Today, Canyon Lands National Park.

Canyon Lands National Park preserves natural beauty and human history

throughout its four districts, which are divided

by the green and Colorado rivers. While the districts share a primitive desert

atmosphere, each retains its own character and offers different opportunities for exploration

and adventure.

To help us learn about this massive and often overlooked park.

We present wilderness of rock, the parks filmed, graciously provided by the National Park Service,

narrated by Larry Lumen. The sun rises,

rises, casting its light across an improbable landscape. Oh, A puzzle of canyons, cliffs, and baked red earth.

This land appears timeless, unchanging.

Yet the movement of each drop of water slightly alters its face,

cutting into the accumulated sediment of 300 million years.

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